This horrific tragedy was unheard of 15 years ago – Three-Year-Old Changes Gender After Living With Foster Parents Whose Own Son Had Transitioned To Become Female

A
three year old boy in the UK was dressed in a girls clothes after
living with foster parents whose own son had transitioned to being
female at the age of seven.

A
closed family court hearing in Preston heard that the foster child was
sent to school dressed in girl’s clothes despite teachers “expressly
asking” the parents not to.

Lancashire
County Council’s social services launched an investigation into the
parents after fearing they had “manipulated” their children’s gender,
“actively encouraged” the change and risked causing “significant
emotional harm” to the children.

The Mail Online
reports: The parents at the centre of the case, which came to light in a
court judgment released last week, also had a third child in their care
who had ‘gender identity issues’.

The
couple, known only as CP and TP, were investigated by Lancashire County
Council’s social services amid accusations they had ‘manipulated’ their
children’s gender and risked causing them ‘significant emotional harm’.

The
council initially wanted five children who were living with the couple
taken into care. But last Friday the couple were exonerated by a High
Court judge who praised them as ‘good parents’, and ‘attuned and
careful’.

Mr
Justice Williams said: ‘The evidence from almost all sources of how the
children are prospering in the care of CP and TP provides very powerful
support to the contention that CP and TP are good parents.’

The
judgment provides further insight into the couple who had been foster
carers for 16 years. Two of the five children who were the subjects of
the court proceedings were their natural children and three were
fostered.

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Their
youngest natural child, known only as R, now 13, transitioned from male
to female at the age of seven. The foster parents took immediate steps
to legally firm up her new identity and changed her name by deed poll
and got a new passport.

But
R remained unhappy and told a member of staff at her school a few
months later that ‘she did not think life was worth living’, the
judgment reveals.

Shortly
after R transitioned, a boy, known as H, was fostered by the family. By
January 2016, at the age of three, he was ‘being dressed in girls’
clothes’, it said.

Foster mother TP reportedly told a teacher: ‘Here’s another one for the Tavistock (clinic)’, the court papers disclose.

The
following year when H was four he started school and the judgment
stated: ‘The school requested H attend in a boy’s uniform. However in
September H came in a girl’s uniform.’

Last
July Lancashire council began proceedings to remove all five children
from the couple over concerns they had ‘acted in a precipitate manner in
relation to perceived gender dysphoria’.

However
the council withdrew its attempts for reasons that remain unclear. Last
Friday Mr Justice Williams, based in the Family Division of the High
Court in London, permitted the council to abandon the litigation it had
initiated.

He
said: ‘The lives of the family should now proceed on the basis that
those concerns were comprehensively dispelled as a result of the
inquisitorial process that has been undertaken.